TULSA, Okla.—Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich dangled the prospect Monday of gas as low as $2 a gallon if he's elected. The former House speaker has spoken in the past of gas dropping to $2.50 a gallon under a Gingrich administration. The prediction, coming as Gingrich campaigned in Oklahoma, contrasts sharply with rival Rick Santorum, who told an Ohio audience that big...

It amazes me how little Newt knows about international energy economics... does he have economic advisers telling him that this is possible??? If true, he immediately loses the rich energy industry backers whose livelihoods are built on $100+ per barrel oil... THEY don't want to see the price of oil come down. The only way he could bring the price of gasoline down would be a massive government subsidy that would use taxpayer dollars to subsidize the energy industry..... of course stupid people don't think about these things... they hear $2.50 gas and say... right on dude.